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iWMC Cites Need For 10,000 More Negro War Worker^
DISCLOSE NEED
AT CONGESTED
AREAS MEETING
By CHARLES W ARTMAN
Eighteen thojM'id addition,*:
male*. 10 tOO of whom w.,1 be Nt
greea. are needed fcr w*r indi**-
trie* in Detroit, T Edward Johnson
of the War Manpower Commisrwr
told m group of re prc*cnlat.\e» ol
rational and loca. agencie* a- the
President* Congealed Aiea com mi
te# office U.-t week.
Johnson steie-d further that " 300
es these men would he for concerns
with high priontie* and of the
7.90 C he esUma ed mat 6.500 would
te Negroes
Johnson marie these statements
to a group which had been c« ed
together bv Le-.y Peterson, area
representative of the President's
Congested Area committee to ri *•
cuss the occupancy purvey and lire
recent .-pot census The object of
the discussion wo* to recnnvle the»e
figures w th the information now
An the hands of local ngenc.e*
A discussion of the housing ques
tion disclosed that the iIMO census
*h owed 34 872 private dwellings
occupied by 149.119 Negroes. Since
Lnen 2.147 dwelling-units built bv
the Federal Government and 200
privately financed buildings have
been occupied by Negroes Charles
Edgecomb gave the privately fi
nanced figure of 200 un.ts
The above figures add up to a
total of 37,230 dwellings occupied
by Negroes as opposed to the Na
tional Housing Authority total o f
45.000 dwelling units. Adding to
that the 2.167 Federal units, makes
• total of 47.167 Negro dwelling
unit* in Detroit occupied by the
present Negro population of 211 874
Subtracting 37.239 from the tota.
es 1944. 47.167 leaves approximately
10,000 dwelling un.ts unaccounted
for.
After a considerate discussion on
the part of this greup. it was agreed
that one half of these were dwelling
units formerly occupied by whites
either purchased or rented by Ne
groes and the other 5 000 were nor
•rally uninhabitable dwellings. Th -
would include store fronts, shacks,
lean -to'a. barns and chicken coops. ,
Present at the meeting were: T
Edward Johnson. WMC; Norman
Barcus. WMC. chief of reports and ;
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Edward Conner, executive secre
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Council of Detroit; Charles Edge
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Comm ss.on; James Watkins, chair
: an. Detroit Interracial committee;
Harold Thompson, Detroit Inter
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Bureau of Governmental Research
of Detroit; Mrs. Mai caret F. Smith,
field worker, FEPC; Leon S
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IN POPULARITY CONTEST
Fight Against Home
Rule Continues In Mich.
Representative! of local govern
ment from the S 3 counties of Michi
gan gathered here last week-end
at the call of the Michigan Insti
tute of Local Government, headed
by State Treasurer D. Hale Brake,
and pledged themselves to an all
out campaign against State Pro
posal No. 4 on the November 7
ballot. This is the amendment that
would abolish 11 cities and 18 town
ships in Wayne County as repre
sentative units in county govern
ment and eventually destroy local
government In Michigan.
“This is the fourth time in ten
years that those of us who believe
in preserving local government as
the keystone of democracy have
been called upon to beat down the
efforts of a selfish clique to de
prive a large section of the popu
lation of their full voice in the
control of their local affairs,” said
Melville B McPherson of Lowell,
chairman of the Slate Supervisors’
Association.
“We have got to defeat It so
overwhelmingly this year as to bury
it for all time.” McPherson con
tinued. “One reason that its pro
ponents find it so easy to mislead
the voters is that nowhere in the
Pleads Guilty To
Stealing An Auto
John Hargrove. 17, no home ad
dress. plead guilty when arraigned
in Recorder’s Court last week on
a charge of unlawfully driving away
an auto. Hargrove was placed on
a SSOO bond by Judge Christopher
after he had waived an examina
Faces Extradition
In Woman i s Death
B W Hill. 37, of 4504 St. Antoine
street was remanded to the county
jail, with an extradition hearing
set for October 16 by Recorder'*
Judge Christopher E. Stein.
Men Chase, Cut
Boy With Knife,
Suspects Held
Two men accused of chaiing a
15-year-oid boy and then cutting
him with a knife were arrested
this week and charged with felon
ious assault.
Named in the warrant and ar
raigned in Recorder* Court on
Monday were Charlie Neely. 34. of
3645 Elba *treet, and Elie Bud
Tuggle, 34. of 47 Smith street
Police disclosed that Tuggle was
I beating an unidentified woman
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Th* Michigan
Chraaid*
Rouge; Derii Davie. River Rouge; Jacqueline
Craighead. Ecorse; Winifred Williams, Rivar
Rouge; Curley Glealon. Ecorse, and Anna
Merle Oliver. Ecorse.
Michigan publ.e school or public
library system can you find a single
textboek on the subject of local
government, treating of the duties
and the importance of the functions
performed by the officials of coun
ties. school districts, townships, and
villages It is time that this Insti
tute took step? to remedy such a
condition.” (The meeting adopted
a resolution to appoint a committee
to look into McPherson's charge
and to recommend remedial action.)
McPherson also urged his hearers
to inaugurate in the rank and file
of both political parties “a crusade
that will show their state leaders
they are determined not to permit
the breakdown of local government,
which will surely result from adop
tion of Proposal No. 4.”
The meeting heard the objections
of the 11 cities and 18 townships
in Wayne County, where the rights
of 450,000 people are jeopardized
if the amendment ta successful and
voted to engage in state-wide dis
tribution of literature will set forth
theje evils and the dangers which
would confront other counties, as
well as the state itself, if non-parti
san centralized government as typi
fied by Amendment No. 4 once gains
an entefing wedge.
tion in the case.
Hargrove was shot in the left
foot last week as he reportedly at
tempted to escape arrest by police
after he had jumped from a stolen
auio near Warren and St. Antoine
street.
According to police. Hill was ac
cused of the slaying March 21, 1942,
of Alice Garner near Macon, Ga.
Police disclosed they expected to
get extradition papers to return
Hill to Georgia.
' near Canfield and Brush streets
while Eugene Neal, 17, of 322 E.
1 Canfield; Donald Brown, 14, ad
dress unknown, and Edward Walk
er Jr., 15, of 326 E. Hancock ave
nue, looked on.
After the fight with the woman,
police say that Neely and Tuggle
chased Edward Walker, 15, of 526
E. Hancock avenue, into a blind
alley where he was held by Neely
while Tuggle cut his rignt arm
and forehead with a knife.
Detectivee Caspar Peek and
Wash Hardy were assigned to the
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slabbing of Manuel Switz, 40, of
426 King aa they question James
Dexter. 50. of »44 Hague avenue.
Police disclosed that Switz was
dead on admittance to Receiving
hospital where he had been taken
for treatment of a stab wound to
the left chest.
It wa* disclosed that Dexter had
an argument with Switz and ac
cused him of being too friendly
with Carrie White, Dexter's wife.
Switz was fatally stabbed during
the altercation and was taken from
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CLEVELAND- - When Captain
Mulzac arrived here with Ferdi
nand Smith on their tour of the
country he was greeted by Sidney
Williams, executive secretary of the
Urban League.
Williams returned last month
from overseas, where he served for
two years with Die Red Cross, ad
ministering clubs in Naples. Casa
blanca and England. Captain Mul
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centers and the captain commented
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East Woodward Negroes
75% For Pres. Roosevelt
Detroit Negroes bid fair to be
come one of the largest pro-Roose
velt groups in the United States,
a poll of voters In the East Wood
ward Area, by the Michigan Chron
icle. discovered this week.
Taking a liberal sample of the
165.000 Negroes in this area of
Metropolitan Detroit the Chronicle
poll showed that 75 per cent of
these voters plan to throw their
strength to President Roosevelt in
November.
Seventeen and one-half percent
of the voters who WIN asked
whether they would support Roose
velt or Dewey in November replied
that they had not made up their
minds as yet and were undecided.
Stand On The Record
One respondent in declaring him
self for -Roosevelt said, "I stand on
Mr. Roosevelt's record. I don't care
whether it is his fifth term or
sixth term.” Another explaining
that he was a member of the Re
publican party, said. “I am voting
for the man and not the party. I
consider Mr. Roosevelt to be a man
who is above any party lines."
"I saw the soup lines during
the depression." one voter said,
"and I don't want to get back in
them "
Most Negroes in the Fast Wood
ward Area of Detroit, who declared
themselves for Roosevelt, expressed
the thought that more had been
done in the general field of social
justice under President Roosevelt's
leadership than in any other similar
period.
One man in his fifties said. “My
father voted Republican all of his
life and urged all of his children
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tosa tapping to tha rhythms of
hit smart danca orchestra. Mr.
Virnell appear* bafora tha pub
lic this tima as an aca photog
rapher and dark-room tschni
cian. Ha bacama interested in
this work through his wife, who
is also a fins phatographar. His
pictures hava appaarad in many
local dailies and waaklias and
in magasinas throughout tha
country. Mr. Virnail has served
as technical advisor to Lang
ford P. James. So'nny Johnson.
Dave Reeves. John Holton.
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Each person was asked: “Are you
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The answers were;
Roosevelt 73%
Dewey 7»fc%
Undecided 17V4%
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a member of the AFL Printer's
Union, presided at a luncheon meet
ing at the Slatler hotel here in
honor of Ferdinand Smith, secretary
of the National Maritime Union,
and Captain Hugh Muliac. rom
mander of the Booker T. Washing
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Speakers stressed the Import
ance of registration and voting in
the November elections. Thvra
Edwards, of the NWU Public Rela
tions Department, and Virginia R
Wing, an early suffragette leader
now with the Anti-Tuberculosis
association, called for a large
women's vote.
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